DEFINITION-non-progressive motor disorder that causes by damage to the brain before, during or shortly after birth.
TYPES - spastic, hypotonia, athetoid and mixed.
1.spastic - increase in muscle tone. if not treated, can cause contracture.
2.hypotonia - diminish muscle tone. firstly, appear flaccid and gradually develop spasticity and sometimes athetoid. Can be easily see by the inability of the infants to gain any head control when pulled by the arms to sitting position.
3 athetoid - means fluctuates tone.
4.mixed - multiple syndromes with combination of the various forms of CP.
AETIOLOGY
-premature
-genetic disorder
-infection of the brain such as viral meningitis
-head injury from trauma(vehicle accident)
-child abuse
-congenital CP cause by faulty cell development in the embryo in the early stages of pregnancy.
-maternal infection with the rubella virus (German meascles) during pregnancy
-severe jaundice of the newborn
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